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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

The New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2013

Apr

2013

The full programme for the 2013 Festival (April 26th - May 5th) is now live. The festival makes great use of the wide range of local venues available and will bring local streets to life with house windows acting as pop-up cinema screens for animation, moving images and self made short films.The main event will ...

Deptford and the Waitrose effect

Mar

2013

Deptford's been given the Standard's Homes & Property treatment this evening, albeit with the focus on New Capital Quay, which lies on the Greenwich side of the water.The imminent arrival of Waitrose (admittedly a rare thing in South East London) has forced the paper urgently to reappraise its view of the area, which we've been saying ...

Terry Liddle (1948-2012): SE London Socialist & Secularist

Mar

2013

There's a memorial event next month (20th April) at Conway Hall for Terry Liddle, the veteran SE London radical who died in November 2012.Terry grew up in Eltham, and lived for many years up until his death at 23 Sowerby Close on the Mottingham Estate. He died from a stroke at the age of 64 ...

Charlotte Turner Overhaul

Mar

2013

The Deptford Dame reports that Charlotte Turner Gardens, on the Greenwich / Deptford border, is to receive a makeover. She says:The improvements are quite exciting - I particularly like the idea of planting an orchard and some cherry trees. More of this kind of thing please - perhaps Lewisham Homes should consider planting fruit trees ...

Charles P. O’Conor: An Irish Poet in Deptford

Mar

2013

A little St Patrick's Day post:Charles P. O'Conor's collection of poems, Songs of a Life, was printed at the Kentish Mercury office in Blackheath Road in 1875 and reviewed by Matthew Arnold in the Pall Mall Gazette in June 1875.In Arnold's essay, A Deptford Poet, O'Conor is described as 'an Irish workingman settled at Deptford' ...

Music Monday: Blyth Power

Mar

2013

More good music coming up at Cafe Crema (306 New Cross Road). This Friday 8th March there's a return of their periodic 'New Orleans, New Cross' acoustic jam session, 'musicians and listeners of good taste and discernment' will be welcome to gather 'around the soulful piano'.Blyth PowerThen on Friday 15th March they've got Blyth Power ...

The Commons

Mar

2013

The 1805 Ordnance Survey Map shows some of the unenclosed common land of SE London. Peckham Rye Common covered a much larger area than the current park. The land to the south of what is now Lewisham Way, between Deptford and Brockley, was Deptford Common.The Well to its South East was presumably the Lady Well ...

Dip it in Deptford

Feb

2013

'The team behind the Deptford Army are launching a new party vibe night at The Bunker Club on Deptford Broadway playing you 80's, 90's and early 00's party hits music, pop remixes, old times hip hop/ DnB and indie n garage!With the recent opening of Little Nan's Bar next door, the drinking will start from ...

DIP IT IN DEPTFORD

Feb

2013

The team behind the Deptford Army are launching a new party vibe night at The Bunker Club on Deptford Broadway playing you 80's, 90's and early 00's party hits music, pop remixes, old times hip hop/ DnB and indie n garage!The drinking will start in Little Nan's from 5pm and continues in The Bunker Club ...

Come in to my parlour

Feb

2013

Little Nan's Bar, the new Deptford boozer, has updated its Facebook page with some interior shots, to show us what Nan has prepared for us. We share the photos here, partly because there was a lot of interest in the venue, but also for those who remember the Bunker Club many previous incarnations and may ...